This is followed by a short overview of the Storage appliance products themselves, and the benefits ZFS brings to them.

The main part of the webinar will then focus on a live demonstration of the management software, from installation configuration, through the selection and creation of the device's storage model, to the creation and use of shares, and finally the software's monitoring and performance analytics features.

The management software is the same across all 7000 series products, so the webinar will give a good insight into the ease in which any of the product range can be managed.

Your instructor, Mick Hosegood, has been involved with Sun and Solaris for over 19 years. He served in the role of support manager at ICL and UK Training manager (Customer and Internal) at Sun Microsystems UK.

Introduction & Agenda

Introductions & Agenda for ZFS File System Tutorial (Part 1 of 6)

>> Mick: As Dave said, the webinar is looking at the software that is used to manage the Oracle 7000 series Storage Appliances which are based on the ZFS File System, which I'll give you a little bit of an overview very shortly.

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The subtitle for this webinar is "How Easy is This? What More Could You Need?" As hopefully I will demonstrate to you how friendly the management interface is and the meeting in other facilities that are available to you and the software is the same right across the entire ZFS Storage Appliance range. What you're going to see here is relevant to any of the systems that you might come across.

It's a range of systems and Storage Appliances that are constantly being updated. In fact, there's a new software update that is just coming out fairly recently with lots of new features. Because it's ZFS-based, we'll be looking, first of all, in a little bit about the backgrounds of the file system. A quick look at some of the models of the Storage Appliance that are available, how they are connected, the various capacities they support, the file sharing protocols, management protocols, etc. and some of the features that are unique to the 7000 series when compared to competitor systems. The main part of the webinar is a practical demonstration of the management software.

Right from taking it out from the box and switching it on up to the creating shares, users, and carrying out analytics to see how the performance of this system is working. One of the key features of the system is that it uses advanced techniques to provide very clear and in-depth analytics to monitor the workload that the system is undergoing and to enable you to hone in on any bottlenecks that you might find and any other problems, etc.

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Please ask questions via your chat window anytime. There will be certain breaks during the webinar when things take a little bit at the time to complete, which we can use as an opportunity to answer your questions. If not, even if we can't answer things on the spot then we'll get back at you, and rest assured that we'll answer your questions one way or the other.